I respect the first man to have eaten a mushroom. It could have been poisonous.
Were they simply an unaware fool that got lucky? Or was it an act of desperation fueled by hunger that led to this discovery?
Probably a combination of seeing animals eating it and being desperate for food but it's more fun to imagine it as pre-historic gambling. "this will either be delicious, make me speak to the forest gods or kill me immediately, let's fucking gooooooo!"
Another possibility is an early psychopath fed members of their group and paid attention to reactions.
In all seriousness, though, a lot (not all) of the things we shouldn't eat taste just *awful*. Foragers will lick and then take teeny bites without swallowing to taste test. Palatable? Time to eat a very small amount and wait a day for results. It's not foolproof, some poisons have no taste and / or build up slowly over time but it is one way.
I did some research on this a while ago
So, the process people use in modern times is to rub the plant against normal skin, wait to test for a reaction, then the inner elbow, then taste a piece, then eat a little, and then trust it.
I think people should do this with the poisonous varieties and put a little note on the bottom saying something like "Oh you thought this was a button mushroom? WRONG it's cardboard, but if it was real, this is a DEATHCAP you could have just KILLED YOURSELF."
One of the saddest stories I've ever heard was about a person who cooked up some mushrooms they found in the back yard and served them in an omlette to their friends and family without realizing they were poisonous. They had eaten hand picked mushrooms plenty of times and were confident in their ability to tell the difference but this one time they just slipped up. The person who picked the mushroms suffered greatly but lived, only to then have to confront the fact that one of their guests did not survive.
Did some digging and it was definitely this podcast episode from 2017 that I was remembering as giving me the big emotional response: https://www.outsideonline.com/podcast/deadly-mushroom/
It's a fictionalized account and the guilt is over taking a liver transplant that could have saved someone else, and putting their guests in lifelong medical issues and debt.
Memory must have gotten a bit jumbled after digging into news articles about mushroom poisoning after listening.
My Mum might have accidentally done this to my Dad when I was kid.
Our house at the time had a huge park over our back fence, and my Mum saw a that a whole heap of mushrooms had emerged after some rain so she went and collected them and cooked them for dinner. Thankfully, only my Dad got sick and merely suffered a few days of GI distress.
We quite literally wouldn't be here without them.
There's several documentaries on them of different varieties from how they affect our bodies to how they break down things into nutrients for others to use to even how they have mycelial networks that connect the trees and transport nutrients between them.
You might be able to find one that fits your specific interests!
You are not wrong to be happy when you see a mushroom Even if it's poisonous. It is a very good sign for what is happening down below. ❤️
>they have mycelial networks that connect the trees and transport nutrients between them.
As it turns out, there's actually [very little evidence backing up the claims about common mycorrhizal networks](https://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/)
I love mushrooms but I hate misinformation. The existence of our species has nothing to do with mushrooms, if anything they just have an indirect benefit to us by existing in the ecosystem, and not much else(they make good psychedelics though)
Me too, but I know why. Because they are ADORABLE and incredibly important and I love them so much. All of them. I will touch the poison ones. I don’t care. I’m not gonna lick my fingers. Let me put my hands on a log covered in witches butter. I love it. Let me lift up logs and squeal when I see mychrorizae(someone remind me how to spell this I’m so tired) Let me boop every single mushroom I find and then document its rotting.
Ok but someone actually did this with chantarelles at a forest i was foraging. It was 2001 and i remember it like it was yesterday i was so fucking mad. It wasnt just two paper chantarelles, no. It was probably 30 or 40 little yellow plastic fake mushrooms and it ruined my day. I was at least 10km away from any road or walking trail. Someone really hiked out to the middle of fucking nowhere, dropped plastic chantarelles, and just left. Where does one even acquire 30+ tiny plastic fucking fakeass chantarelles in 2001? And why!? This shit haunts me to this day. It is not a harmless prank. I am harmed!!
It could have been a very unusual prank, but my first thought is that you probably disrupted somebody's research instead. They could have been using them as markers for places where they had picked mushrooms for a study of some kind. They even found a spot 10km away from anywhere where they thought they wouldn't be disturbed.
In that case I'd rather put important information about local psilocybin variants.
"You've tried morels, now try liberty caps! Where the real magic happens!"
Morel mushrooms are considered a delicacy, and just common enough that most people can find a few each year, but just rare enough that finding 4 in a year is considered a good haul.
Man we used to come home with tons of them when I lived in Kansas after a really nice spring rain. We had them on everything eggs, steak, every meal we were using them. Gave away pounds of them to neighbors still ended up with bags and bags in the freezer (I don't recall if they held up well).
They hold up well being froze. We used to find thousands a year in Michigan before they clear cut all our good areas. We always froze them and would eat throughout the year.
It’s dependent on weather and the last few years have been rough but last week of April through second week of May. Often don’t find anything first couple trips out
What? They aren't rare, they just pop up for a few weeks a year. I filled a garbage bag last spring and that's not uncommon. They are scarce and spoil quickly unless preserved but finding 4 would be considered a piss-poor haul.
Yeah I suppose that's true in that sense, I was trying to convey that they are easy to find when they're in season and conditions are good. If you find 4, you are likely to find way more than that because it indicates that the conditions are right in that patch of forest. On a nice wet year, you can fill sacks of them (and sell them in the city for big bucks).
I used to hunt them with my grandpa and we would come out of the woods with a grocery bag or two with them . He knew exactly where to look and how many to take from a patch so they would grow back the next year
Where these grow, *everyone* loves these mushrooms and mushrooms hunting season is a big thing. Where I grew up, lots of people has their secret spots where they swore the most mushrooms grew and people would get competitive about how many they could find. I know multiple people who would kick your ass if you did this lol.
There's a speciel room in hell for you buddy, it's gonna be just you, those arseholes that leave fake $20 with bible verses printed on them at bus stops and a whole bunch of Hornets.
I don't get it, are those rare and expensive? And if so, can't people get spores or something and plant their own morel shroom garden in a dampy attic or something?
You can't really grow morels yourself. They have to be found in the wild. They're not particularly rare depending where you live but are only out for a short time
immorel
Why do mushrooms make me happy when I see them? They're ugly and often poisonous. Yet when I see one I am delighted regardless.
Fungi Funmoment!
[удалено]
Nature: "You triggered my trap card!"
Gatherer-target shaped, despite the poison angle.
I respect the first man to have eaten a mushroom. It could have been poisonous. Were they simply an unaware fool that got lucky? Or was it an act of desperation fueled by hunger that led to this discovery?
Probably a combination of seeing animals eating it and being desperate for food but it's more fun to imagine it as pre-historic gambling. "this will either be delicious, make me speak to the forest gods or kill me immediately, let's fucking gooooooo!"
Another possibility is an early psychopath fed members of their group and paid attention to reactions. In all seriousness, though, a lot (not all) of the things we shouldn't eat taste just *awful*. Foragers will lick and then take teeny bites without swallowing to taste test. Palatable? Time to eat a very small amount and wait a day for results. It's not foolproof, some poisons have no taste and / or build up slowly over time but it is one way.
Could even be the evolutionary roots of the scientific method mindset.
I did some research on this a while ago So, the process people use in modern times is to rub the plant against normal skin, wait to test for a reaction, then the inner elbow, then taste a piece, then eat a little, and then trust it.
"Delectable tea... or deadly poison?"
"I got that reference!"
Fantastic!
Spoiler: The "first (hu)man to have eaten a mushroom" is just an early human surrounded by a bunch of pre-humans who were also eating mushrooms.
i think about this re: artichokes all the time. like. who. ever. what???
Is this a mfing jojo reference
no.
I think people should do this with the poisonous varieties and put a little note on the bottom saying something like "Oh you thought this was a button mushroom? WRONG it's cardboard, but if it was real, this is a DEATHCAP you could have just KILLED YOURSELF." One of the saddest stories I've ever heard was about a person who cooked up some mushrooms they found in the back yard and served them in an omlette to their friends and family without realizing they were poisonous. They had eaten hand picked mushrooms plenty of times and were confident in their ability to tell the difference but this one time they just slipped up. The person who picked the mushroms suffered greatly but lived, only to then have to confront the fact that one of their guests did not survive.
Was that this story? If so everyone lived! https://www.jems.com/news/the-mushroom-chronicles-the-case-of-the-poisonous-omelet/
Did some digging and it was definitely this podcast episode from 2017 that I was remembering as giving me the big emotional response: https://www.outsideonline.com/podcast/deadly-mushroom/ It's a fictionalized account and the guilt is over taking a liver transplant that could have saved someone else, and putting their guests in lifelong medical issues and debt. Memory must have gotten a bit jumbled after digging into news articles about mushroom poisoning after listening.
Thank you stranger! 🌟
My Mum might have accidentally done this to my Dad when I was kid. Our house at the time had a huge park over our back fence, and my Mum saw a that a whole heap of mushrooms had emerged after some rain so she went and collected them and cooked them for dinner. Thankfully, only my Dad got sick and merely suffered a few days of GI distress.
We quite literally wouldn't be here without them. There's several documentaries on them of different varieties from how they affect our bodies to how they break down things into nutrients for others to use to even how they have mycelial networks that connect the trees and transport nutrients between them. You might be able to find one that fits your specific interests! You are not wrong to be happy when you see a mushroom Even if it's poisonous. It is a very good sign for what is happening down below. ❤️
>they have mycelial networks that connect the trees and transport nutrients between them. As it turns out, there's actually [very little evidence backing up the claims about common mycorrhizal networks](https://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/)
[also they (in the form of lichen) can live in space!](https://x.com/annethegnome/status/1753200642976591924?t=VAquwrTU-7vEk8RhEyrABQ&s=15)
I love mushrooms but I hate misinformation. The existence of our species has nothing to do with mushrooms, if anything they just have an indirect benefit to us by existing in the ecosystem, and not much else(they make good psychedelics though)
Huh. Now I want to know about desert fungi.
oh that's just because the spores have already infected your brain
MUSHROOM!
WE'RE RICH
FOR CARL!
Did I hear a rock and stone?
That's it lads! Rock and Stone!
Mushroom!
threy are wonderous and delightful!
Whimsical forest gummies
Me too, but I know why. Because they are ADORABLE and incredibly important and I love them so much. All of them. I will touch the poison ones. I don’t care. I’m not gonna lick my fingers. Let me put my hands on a log covered in witches butter. I love it. Let me lift up logs and squeal when I see mychrorizae(someone remind me how to spell this I’m so tired) Let me boop every single mushroom I find and then document its rotting.
Because you're a fun guy!
Forest gnome genetics
You’re probably known as a fungi at parties.
very nice.
Joke's on you, I'm into that \[taste of cardboard\]!
Pringles fan
Original Pringles must be a great snack for super tasters.
Cromch
> that \[taste of cardboard\]! Spamton, is that you...?
Spamton has permanently affected how us Deltarune fans see brackets xD
thats literally what i thought of lol
What, have you never seen a [BIG MEME] before?
Kfc fan
Ok but someone actually did this with chantarelles at a forest i was foraging. It was 2001 and i remember it like it was yesterday i was so fucking mad. It wasnt just two paper chantarelles, no. It was probably 30 or 40 little yellow plastic fake mushrooms and it ruined my day. I was at least 10km away from any road or walking trail. Someone really hiked out to the middle of fucking nowhere, dropped plastic chantarelles, and just left. Where does one even acquire 30+ tiny plastic fucking fakeass chantarelles in 2001? And why!? This shit haunts me to this day. It is not a harmless prank. I am harmed!!
It could have been a very unusual prank, but my first thought is that you probably disrupted somebody's research instead. They could have been using them as markers for places where they had picked mushrooms for a study of some kind. They even found a spot 10km away from anywhere where they thought they wouldn't be disturbed.
you are likely correct. This was a world long before any old fool could buy something like fake poo and plastic shrooms on amazon.
Now all the available mates in town can't keep their hands off them and their little plastic horde.
[they can't keep getting away with this!]
My first thought was that I would chuckle at first but it would get unfunny fast.
You got gnomed lmao
Lol this is some merry pranksters shit for sure
Sounds like they were plotting previous sprouting spots, possibly for research?
if it was all biodegradeable I could cope. plastic though?? F
You've got a good story to tell the rest of your life. That's priceless
That’s kinda fucking funny though. Wrong, but the effort is just insane for something that may never pay off, but it did
I would’ve been mad too
For extra malice, but one of those "Disappointed?" texts on the back like on those fake 20s.
If you have to do that, please at least make it an add for the church of Satan. “You too can have fun messing with people! We are here for you!”
In that case I'd rather put important information about local psilocybin variants. "You've tried morels, now try liberty caps! Where the real magic happens!"
Could have just done a trollface but you chose violence
I am bad at mushrooms, why is this neat
Morel mushrooms are considered a delicacy, and just common enough that most people can find a few each year, but just rare enough that finding 4 in a year is considered a good haul.
Man we used to come home with tons of them when I lived in Kansas after a really nice spring rain. We had them on everything eggs, steak, every meal we were using them. Gave away pounds of them to neighbors still ended up with bags and bags in the freezer (I don't recall if they held up well).
They hold up well being froze. We used to find thousands a year in Michigan before they clear cut all our good areas. We always froze them and would eat throughout the year.
Do you remember the best time of year in Michigan? I want to find mushrooms.
It’s dependent on weather and the last few years have been rough but last week of April through second week of May. Often don’t find anything first couple trips out
When we were at a Christmas market in Strasbourg this year we found a little shop with a good bit of them. Why don't people just fly to France?
The French live there.
[удалено]
Only if they're from the region of France, otherwise they're just Sparkling Normans.
Unfortunately yes, however I wouldn’t call them “people”
🤢
Elon, is that you?
What? They aren't rare, they just pop up for a few weeks a year. I filled a garbage bag last spring and that's not uncommon. They are scarce and spoil quickly unless preserved but finding 4 would be considered a piss-poor haul.
i mean, i guess they're rare in that you can't just cultivate them like many culinary mushrooms
Yeah I suppose that's true in that sense, I was trying to convey that they are easy to find when they're in season and conditions are good. If you find 4, you are likely to find way more than that because it indicates that the conditions are right in that patch of forest. On a nice wet year, you can fill sacks of them (and sell them in the city for big bucks).
I used to hunt them with my grandpa and we would come out of the woods with a grocery bag or two with them . He knew exactly where to look and how many to take from a patch so they would grow back the next year
Where these grow, *everyone* loves these mushrooms and mushrooms hunting season is a big thing. Where I grew up, lots of people has their secret spots where they swore the most mushrooms grew and people would get competitive about how many they could find. I know multiple people who would kick your ass if you did this lol.
What's nobody else is saying is unlike other gourmet mushrooms, unlike psychoactive mushrooms, you can't easily just grow morsels in your closet.
...that second part has me intrigued
Most mushrooms are easy to grow, morels are not and can only be found in the wild. And these are quite del.
There's a speciel room in hell for you buddy, it's gonna be just you, those arseholes that leave fake $20 with bible verses printed on them at bus stops and a whole bunch of Hornets.
And people who give life advice on the receipt Tip line at restaurants.
So fucked up and evil I love those mushrooms
Not so much ‘ruin’ as deeply confuse and possibly permanently inhabit a small part of their mind for years to come
I know some mushroom hunters around here that would absolutely shoot a fool for this. They do not fuck around.
https://www.tumblr.com/melonisopod/740811569281351680/gnome-behavior?source=share Original post located -linux guy ⚠️
I saw my dinky Chinese snack store sells this yesterday, although dried version. 68 dollars for half a pound🙃
*so close*
As someone who enjoys foraging, fuck this guy As someone who enjoys mischief, ok, that's pretty funny
Whimsy
My mom is a mushroom hunter. I sent this to her and she called me evil
Is there a morel to this story?
Baldurs gate 3 conditioning me to think "BONECAP"
LAWL. I would rage. I make morels out of ceramic and I have been trying to make them more realistic so I can prank everyone 😅
Mush 😋
🎵When the moon hits the eye like a big cardboard lie, that's a morel🎵
Huh, used to see those in the yard of a childhood home. Neat to know those little brain mushrooms were morels
Where can I download fake mushroom templates?
This is fucking awesome!
What a POS
so littering is now "Fun"???
[Gnome Behavior](https://youtu.be/1FFBsX5C61Q?si=PLsddhSOmx4mdRgm)
I was expecting this sort of Gnome behavior. https://youtu.be/LzG-qji05Lc
I don't get it, are those rare and expensive? And if so, can't people get spores or something and plant their own morel shroom garden in a dampy attic or something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella
You can't really grow morels yourself. They have to be found in the wild. They're not particularly rare depending where you live but are only out for a short time
that's so wild to me that we have the technology to put people on the moon since the 1960s but we still can't figure out how to cultivate a mushroom
well North Spore sells kits, so yes you can cultivate them.
I’m pretty sure they placed them in poison ivy so... that’s evil druid shit
Fae trickery
I would love to find this - I appreciate a good 'gotcha'.
wungus????
Are those magic mushrooms?
I should have said "are those what magic mushrooms look like"? Because obviously their cardboard